Sentences with phrase «of other brain areas»

In their next project, the scientists want to expand their study to include a number of other brain areas that are also active for body recognition.

So, as noted earlier by Kernberg regarding denial and splitting, the person will continue to have a memory that he or she previously didn't feel this way, «but this memory has no emotional relevance» for the person because that area of the brain that was previously active is now entirely turned off (entirely inhibited by the activity of the other brain area).

Not exact matches

Or does it pull in contributions from other parts of the cerebral cortex and even from areas that are involved in emotional behavior, like the amygdala, which lies deep in the brain's core?

«Using so much of your brain to lie may make it hard to monitor yourself in other areas.»

Inhaling essential oils activates the hypothalamus — the area of the brain which sends messages to other parts of the body.

But, if you are the one to offer the contrast for the other end of the scales (in picture form, of course), then you'll be speaking to the action - area of their brain: «If you're thinking you're busy — too busy to make it — then it's you this weekend is for.

Glutamate is the No. 1 excitatory transmitter in the brain,» Melillo said, adding that it can excite certain areas of the brain more than others, causing an imbalance.

ImPACT [Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing] and other cognitive testing wouldn't establish a baseline or reveal deficits in these areas of the brain [so] more and different evaluations are needed.»

There are recent studies that say people who read a substantial amount are more able to empathize with others, and also that the brain is engaged in several different areas by particular words, such as areas related to the senses of taste, touch, or smell especially.

Other research shows that ADHD children with a particular gene variation have thinner tissue in the area of the brain that's associated with attention.

«But breast milk has been shown to be helpful in other areas of development, so we looked to see what effect it might have on the brain.

A study by Luby and other WUSM researchers showed that a mother's love had a physical effect on the size of her child's hippocampus — the area of the brain responsible for memory.

Because consistently elevated cortisol affects the way the baby's brain develops, the way he responds to stress in the future, his immune system, his risk of obesity and other areas of development.

Although the role of the visual cortex and other areas of the brain are being identified, and their functions clarified, it is not likely that there is a «truth» center in the brain or a «lying» center.

The super-agers also had developed increased thickness in an area of the brain associated with decision - making, impulse control and emotions and other functions that was not found in the brains of their peers or of healthy younger people.

In 2011 researchers found that these waves of electricity cause neurons in the hippocampus, the main brain area involved with memory, to fire backward during sleep, sending an electrical signal from their axons to their own dendrites rather than to other cells.

They help communicate between different neocortical layers and across cortical areas from one side of the brain to the other.

Using resting - state MRI analysis on thousands of people's brains around the world, the research has found that the areas of the brain which are associated with learning and development show high levels of variability, meaning that they change their neural connections with other parts of the brain more frequently, over a matter of minutes or seconds.

On the other hand, regions of the brain which aren't associated with intelligence — the visual, auditory, and sensory - motor areas — show small variability and adaptability.

These neurons, he believed, somehow turned up or down the «volume» of the neurons he'd recorded in other areas of the brain.

«As certain areas of the brain become more variable, it seems to compensate in some ways for the other parts of the brain that are decreasing,» said Aaron Heller, an assistant professor in the Psychology Department and senior author of the paper.

While a clinician may find it difficult to parse whether a patient's stilted conversational manner is rooted in a lack of emotional connection or problems forming words, a brain scan in Belger's study made it clear, for example, that particular symptoms were more closely associated with disruption in the brain's emotional processing areas, whereas other symptoms were more closely associated with regions responsible for language and motor control.

«In the near future, we will continue this research and extend analyses of tDCS to other brain areas and functions.»

To make matters more challenging, Lappas decided at this early stage in the experiment to search for patterns not only in the auditory cortex but in other areas of the brain as well.

You're also known for discovering that the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain essential to decision - making and our ability to behave appropriately around others, is compromised in the brains of addicts.

Finally, the team used functional MRI scans of subjects» brains to show that contemplating God's beliefs activates the same brain areas as thinking about one's own views, while thoughts about other Americans» views activate a brain area used for inferring other people's mental states.

Their results demonstrated that, instead of an overall decrease in variability with aging, as earlier studies showed, the brain displayed regional differences, with some areas of the brain showing increases in variability across age while other areas showed a decrease.

«I was very curious at that point what glial cells would be doing in the hypothalamus, since glial cells have been shown in other brain areas to have an influence on regulation of neuronal function,» she says.

Reducing STK17A also interfered with tumor cells» ability to move around and invade other areas of the brain.

Whereas some of the other types of visual prostheses propose stimulating different areas of the brain from the one Pezaris is targeting, another promising project known as the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System is expanding its U.S. clinical trial into Europe.

After exploring the areas of the brain that fuel our empathetic impulses — and temporarily disabling other regions that oppose those impulses — two UCLA neuroscientists are coming down on the optimistic side of human nature.

Researchers specifically analyzed how different areas of the brain activate in sync with each other — a property called functional connectivity — during a period of rest.

Seeking additional insight into similar mechanisms at work in other centers of the brain, Donato and his team discovered that the signal to develop one area known to be involved in more abstract functions, including memory and navigation, originated from deep within the brain, in a specific population of neurons that kicks off the maturation of an entire neural network.

Pralle's approach, on the other hand, merely requires injecting a needle full of magnetically sensitive nanoparticles into specific brain areas.

When warned their breathing was about to be restricted, the most resilient participants — SEALs and adventure racers, among others — showed a burst of blood - flow activity in an area of the brain that registers sensations in the body, called the insular cortex.

If you go into the brain stem or into other subcortical areas of the brain, the neurons have no distinguishing features.

He believes the brain uses a kind of voting system: different brain areas weigh up the various attributes of apples, pears and plums, say, and compete with each other to have their preference chosen.

Neurons in the shell surrounding the established vocal centers of the parrot brain play a part in vocal learning and other complex motor behaviors, resolving controversies over the size of brain areas involved in song and speech imitation.

They detected little or no MHCI expression in some areas of the brain, but they found it in several other places, including the visual cortex while the ocular dominance columns were forming, and in the hippocampus — an area of the brain associated with learning and memory — at all ages.

They found that 12 areas of the brain had significantly busier pathways within and between them than all the others.

In the realm of relationships, this mingling of the less and more - concrete means that attachment experiences with specific others, their unconscious emotional tone, and the temperatures they actually feel activate and are stored in overlapping networks of brain areas.

When they followed the avatar's gaze, a different area of the brain, known to be involved in imagining what other people are thinking, was active.

Researchers have known for years that TBI has significant effects on the gastrointestinal tract, but until now, scientists have not recognized that brain trauma can make the colon more permeable, potentially allowing allow harmful microbes to migrate from the intestine to other areas of the body, causing infection..

Surprisingly, despite Broca's area being one of the most studied human brain regions, neuroscientists are still not exactly sure what the same region does, on the other side of the brain.

Similar findings were also seen in other areas of the brain that are known for being important in emotional regulation.

«One camp of neuroscientists believe that we access both the phonology and the visual perception of a word as we read them, and that the area or areas of the brain that do one, also do the other, but our study suggests this isn't the case,» says Glezer.

Given that there are a number of different types of neurons in the cerebral cortex and that there are many areas where the neurons do things other than help with memory, you can see how one billion is a conservative estimate I hoped would be useful for understanding the storage capacity of the human brain.

Additional brain loss occurs in other areas of the brain in those who do manifest depressive symptoms.

«In both humans and voles, we believe other brain areas are likely involved too, including the amygdala, a brain area important for attaching positive or negative importance of specific stimuli to motivate behavioural responses.»

Although the primary visual cortex usually communicates mainly with other parts of the vision system, many other brain areas contributed to the processing of images in volunteers who received LSD.